The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1920, Page 18

“SAFETY IN DISTRIBUTION. > EGISTRATION of immigrants is onevof the A recommendations in the. typically vague and plank of the Republican platform dealing subject. time experience cast serious doubts on our us immigration policy. Peace should not Otketfulness. the war America learned with a shock Watethe melting pot had not donesits work as well “85 most Americans had supposed. We learned that - nic angle was not the sole interest of ci .in immigration, There are political and aigles to be considered. War revealed con- Betis which threatened the very life of our body if Yevealed spots into which Americanism had ef penetrated. Refractory lumps of population d resisted American ideas, The “old country” with its conflicting ideals was perpetuated here in * Tete Were and are “aliens” in America, even ‘#aliens” who hold, naturalization papers. ‘These re- rectory wiiid un-Americanized lumps occurred in the | ; Mifles,” in the great cities, tm the colonies in DF PaaWestern States where schools taught English ; as aside line, in the industrial regions where | piaSe8* of labor of the same: nationality were em- Pe a ployed and housed in compact groups which per- peluated alien beliefs and customs. “Foreignism in America was revealed as a c the fife of the body politic. Mrhese conditions suggested a use of registration looking toward the more judicious - dis- n of immigrants to discourage the formation F these indigestible massés of foreignism within nerican borders. te apart from the question of numbers of im- wants to be admitted is the question of their dis- \ Without barring the immigrant it should _ be possible to restrict his residence. Asa condition ‘of admittance he could be barred from areas in h Jarge numbers of his unnaturalized country; Mf’ résitie, He could be required to live in areas . American influence would have an Oppor- svork, 7 \ @% a proposal avorthy of serious considera- > tone at will not be endorsed by great employers ; wad: want to import labor to gld country surround- sin America and keep them working under old ry standards of living. y Nor will the proposal be endorsed by labor lead- avho would exclude al competition from abroad. But is it not a form of “Safety First” policy to be { by Americans who are more intereste,t in the preservation of American institutions in Ameriga the selfish economic conflict between present Ms for regulation of immigration? cer THE FULL NOMINEE. jas for brevity rather than accuracy that the hewspapers chronicled the nomination of Sen- Harding by the Republican Convention, ‘full name of the nominee is complicated and to define precisely. buicans did not nominate a man, They a group, an oligarchy. The object is to the executive and legislative departments in ,0f directors who sit in the Senate or have tommunion with the Senate. ors Penrose, Lodge, Smoot, Watson and cgre the king-pins. Senator Harding has not seven been in full standing. He has belonged to the _ ffinge “Of smaller men who wait in the antecham- _ grerun errands and do the bidding of the oligarchs. ladsworth, Moses, New, Sherman and the pseudo- ives, such as Kellogg, Lenroot, McCormick, oh Harding. Any one might have been sub- for Harding without changing the situation thé’ cbhvention itself recognized this in the final revolt when it turned down Lenroot and nominated ‘Pidawiing’s name will go on the ballot, but the real minees will make the race. * | A FORGOTTEN PROMISE? O months ago The Evening World said: is seems high time that some one had courage and public spirit enough lo ledge a pro‘est against fhe..shocking conditions df the public comfort g gooms of subway and elevated stations. Son Copeland manifested complete nt with The Evening World, ordered an im- clean-up and promised a vigilant and con- Commissioner went abroad and the Interbotough has relaxed its vigilance, Hot weather aggravates conditions which are al- most intolerable at any time. Mayor Hylan has declared for a general clean-up in the city. The Evening World desires to call to his attention this excellent opportunity to denjon- strate. INVITING IT. UT Warren G. Harding, Republican candidate § — for President, alongside the Republican plat- form adopted by the Chicago Convention and you have a fair measure of what Republican leaders think good enough for American voters at one of the most crucial periods in the Nation's historys Even the average Republican cannot help asking why the ticket named at Chicago reads: Harding and Coolidge. Why not the other way round? Because Harding is the docile type avho, as Presi- dent, would leave the power of the Republican Party where the Republican Old Guard and their backers. want it left. 3 Coolidge is a man of individuality and purpose. He might prove a difficult President to manage, As Vice President he is safe. He puts a propitiatory element of strength and character at the small end of the ticket where they can do no harm. The Republican dictators at Chicago were after two things in their Presidential candidate : They must have a man with as little as possible in him to repel votes, whose chance of winning lookéd good enough to warrant running him, They must not—for the mere sake of having a conspicuously fit candidate sure to attract votes— take the risks of picking a man who, if elected, might prove unmanageable, Hence, Harding. Hence, a Presidential possibility like Herbert Hoo- ver turned down and left in the discard. ‘An eminent foreigner, whose comprehensive and sympathetic study of American political institutions and processes still remains a standard work on the subject, has this to say as to why the fittest men are not chosen Presidents of the United States: “In America party loyalty and party or- | ganization have been hitherto so perfect that any gne put forward by the party will get the full party vote if his character is good and his ‘record,’ as they oall it, unstained. The safe candidate may not draw in quite 80 many votes from the moderate men of the other side as‘the brilliant one would, but he will not lose nearly so many from his own ranks, Even those who admit his medioc- rity will vote straight when the moment for voting comes. Besides, the ordinary Amer- ican voter does not object to mediocrity.” The above was written some thirty years ago. In 1920, Republican Party leaders not only as- sume its truth, but seem bent on trying whether the level of mediocrity may not be lowered indefinitely without shocking the voter out of his party habits. They forget it is possible to go too far. They forget also that at the present moment no inconsiderable number of Republican voters view the great national and international problems left by the war as calling for higher ability and statesmanship than can be expected in a President selected solely because he will trot evenly and tractably in party harness, A Democratic candidate of true Presidential cal- ibre should have the aid of a goodly number of Re- publican votes in defeating a boss-picked embodi- ment of the commonplace, to whom even the nom- inating convention refused the usual final courlesy of a make-it-unanimous, At this highly critical juncture in the progress of the Nation and the world, the best the Republican Party offers the country is a nonentity for President, on a platform the"chief planks of which affront in- telligence with either evasion or lies! Unless the Democratic Party develops softening of the brain, the result should be a Republican dis- aster of record magnitude, FOR THE P. S. GC, TO WATCH. YLAN-WHALEN buses are ruled off three routes in Brooklyn where the buses compete with the franchise-holding surface cars, Without going into the merits of the court's de- cision, one consequence should be obvious. If competition is to be forbidden, the absence of competition should not work to the disadvantage of the patrons, If the traction company is to have a monopoly it can justify the monopoly only on the ground of adequate service. The Public Service Cominission should immedj- ately order an examination of service on the tine’ affected and order operation of sufficient cars to ac- commodate the patronage which has been going to the buses. Crowded cars and an excess of strap-hangers were the best justification for competing buses. Stoppage of the busses should not be allowed to make overcrowding still worse. vap.ed aot , By G In regard to your editorial “Prize Flim Flam” on registering a vote for the Representative who yoted for the bonus, will say all of us are not led so easily. My family and myself have been Republicans, but we hold the Republicans responsible for the de- feat of the bonus because they are in the majority in Washington, | It 1s the rawest deal they could give the soldier, by trying to make the soldier think they were trying to pass the bonus! but were only’ passing the buck. We left our jobs whict were filled later on by others, we never to get our places again. We did the fighting to keep militarism from our front yard and to protect the prop- erty of the people who think it would break the country to help the boys, Do you think we are going like a lot of cattle and walk up and yote for the party or men that turned us down and adjourned Congresa to avoid the bonus, Give us the bonus and those that don't need it Jet tt alone, Give us a chance to hold our end up and be- cdme good citizens, We are not looking for something for nothing any more than the railroads are. The Government took over the railroads during the war, and the same set of people are out hammer and tongs to see that the railroads don't lose a enny. Dollars above human beings. “et Me Say once more that the poll- tictans sit up and take notice because there are thousands more lke me who are going to hit and hit where we can hit the hardest A DISABLED VETPRAN. New York City, June 2, 1920, A New Ww To tho Editor of The Evening World. 1 hope this little sermon, intended for the "joy-killers” and jealous old soclety hags, who are leaving us to enter the domains of a “better” place, will console them for the’ wrongs that they are unsuccessfully perpetrating upon the “20th Century” g Our “beautiful roses” in’ life are being, through Prussian methods, forced to become “weeds” by a clique of old evil reformers, who are trying to teach us how to dress, dance, eat and walk. Who arrogated to you these powers? You who have lived in an age when you knew not the pleasures of modern times; you who have wasted your lives because. you had not ‘such pleasures as rouge, powder, high heels, low cut waists, short skirts, are now trying, not in order to curb vice, but through sheer jeal- ousy, which you harbor i your cold hearts, to rob our girls of the joys in life, You have lved your lives; you could not change your beastly moth- eaten, wrinkled, human old faces with all the paint an@ powder in the world, Too bad your lives were not so enjoyable, Remember this is the 20th Century, This is a new world and you and your kind are out of place here, But you are bound for your journey, Let's hope St. Peter [ FROM EVENING WURLD READERS ]) What kind of letter do you find most readalie? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of'a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying * to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. bc ae 4 | as for New York, all I can say is “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” AL WIENER. New York, Ju 1920, To the Editor of The Brening World Undgr the caption “Language” on the editorial page in The Evening World, on June 8, we find this para- graph? “Language as a vehicle to con- vey thought is at best an approx- imation, The simplest words when employed require a plus sign to give them an approach to absolute accuracy.” John Blake's articles in The Even- ing World under the caption, “Un- common Sense,” (which I believe are the very essence of common sense) need no plus sign or minus sign to guarantee their accuracy or eimplic- ity, to be thoroughly understandable at first glance. ‘These articles are written so logic- ally, so forcefully, so to the point that they are the best food for earn- est thought that [ have read in a very long time, If these essays or editorials are ever published in book form I will subcribe Instantly for @ copy. Many’s the valuable hint and prac- tical bit of advice have I received through these valuable articles and I am obliged to Mr, John Blake, to The Evening World for publishing them for the good of all. FRODDRIC G. W, SIGRIST, New York, June 10, 1920, Save for = Bonus. ‘To the Bititor af ‘The Evening World: It {s amusing to anyone with an ordinary school education to read comments on the bonus to the boys who did their bit for their country. The remedy is in Washington, D, C., according to your paper published June 1, 1920. Profiteering Congress- men is the answer, The bonus for incompetent clerks, who couldn't hold a’ job in outside life, are paid $240, and they only gave $60 to a man to risk his life. Congressman Fuller's statements published by your paper to-day should be published broadcast all over the United States to enlighten the general public on the perquisites the public pay for the men who surely misrepresent them, Why Representative “Mason from Illinois should hold his étate- ments and proof about Berglard M. Baruch tih after March 4/1921, is beyond the common herd. ls he afraid he won't get a square deal or what is the matter in Washington? No dowbt if these three matters were looked into they would be able to save more than enough to give a bonus to soldiers who want it and undoubt~- edly help the postal service. I hope will give you @ g00d hand shake, but fied om in Washington, some abler pen Will take this matter up, Who can call a spade a’ spade without being forced to call it an implement you dig with. I am one of the many millions who are dis- satisfied with the way things are car, » Cy and hope to improve them—this coming November, fe) ROWE. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World; case of Hattie Dixon, colored, who, with her sixteen-year-old son’ has been convicted of murder In the first degree for the poisoning ‘of another woman. While there is no doubt in my mind that she and her son committed a cold-blooded murder, yet the fact re- mains thgt the jury ‘that imposed the extreme ‘penalty woman {s setting a bad precedent. they were actuated by racial preju- dice, cases of white women brought to trial for the same offense and not one of them has been sentenced to the chair, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by Jobm Blake.) WE GET THE GOVERNMENT WE DESERVE. The most important change that can be made in a Nation will be made in the United States in November. For four months you will have time to think it over. The ‘power to decide is absolutely in your hands. You may decide right. You may decide wrong. But in any event you will be far better fitted for your duties as a citizen if you try to decide carefully. Republics, it has been said, are ungrateful. This is not always true. This Republic was not ungrateful to Wash- ington or Lincoln. M Washington was honored to the day of his death, after his retirement from the Presidency. No one doubts that Lincoln would have been held in high esteem by his fellow countrymen long after his ser- vices as President has ceased, had his life not ended tragic- ally. 4 Republics do, very often, pick the wrong man, But that is not the fault of the man, it is the fault of the Re- public. ‘4 This year very important issues are to be decided. There has been abundant time to study and to think about them. There will be abundant opportunity to learn more about. them during the campaign. Do your share of this study. Go to political meetings. Read reports of speeches in the newspapers. Do not think that these are campaign guff. They*will be the serious thoughts of earnest men who really believe what they say. At bad time to edit a book fs after {t has been published. A bad time to cémplain about an election is after it has been decided. Do your deciding now. You have all the facts before you. Make up your mind about what you think of the men and of the issues. Then vote for what you think is right and best for your country. If men would take political campaigns more seriously there would be fewer disappointments after elections, and fewer charges that public officials had been false to their principles, Bneeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnty —_——————-:.000°—°0 OOP some white woman who had been sen- tenced to the chair numerous civic so- cleties and individuals would votce York, June 8, 192 Stal Tang pet their disapproval. Hattie Dixon Convicted. My attention has been called to the] interested in seeing t the electric chair. Poorly Paid Postal Workers, To the Exeor of The Brening World : on this colored | riers, While I won't go #0 far as to say | miles. yet there have been several! pecially shoes, Imagine them} I firmly believe that if it had been| Staten Island, N.Y, Prutttishing Oo, Cori fis Net Tor Brenna. Won) No. 93.—THE CHOIR INVIS- * IBLE, by James Lane Allen. John Gray was the young school- master of the one school’ at Lexington, Ky. a centurf or so ago, He was ® clever, highborn, independent chap, who had no interest in his rough sur Anyway, I hope through your valu- able paper that some people will be at this poor woman will be spared from going to CLEO. L. PRESCOTT. 1668 Dean Street,Brooklyn, June 8, 1920 I would ike to say a few words concerning the poorly paid mail car- Those men have to support M@on't sec how they can accomplish tt, and procure clothes, es- the shoes they must wear out In the service and the price they have to pay for ORS. J.C. frontier community were Major and Mrs. Falconer and the latter’s beauti- ful niece, Amy. Mrs, Falconer was a brilliant and Sentle and attractive woman, about John's own age, She was unhappily _ married td a man many years oldér than herself. And, though she did nd confess it, then, even to herself, she fell overwhelmingly in love with young John Gray. But John, at that time, had eyes and thoughts only for Amy. He was Amy’s enslaved adorer. And he had fot the sense to note that his sweet- heart was a fickle and unscrupulous fool. Searcely had John and Amy become engaged than a quarrel showed the dumfounded young lover just what. ort of girl he had fallen in dove with, Amy took advantage of this same quarrel to break her engagement to John and to accept the adoration of, one Joseph Holden, who seemed to .; have better prospects in life than this poor young, schoolmaster. But presently she learned that John was heir to a large fortune, She bur- ried to him and offered to jilt Holden in his favor. Disgusted with Amy's | mercenary heartlessness, John turned t from her and refused to renew their broken troth, It was then that he discovered to { his own amazement that his heart \ belonged not to the silly Mirt who had ‘ trifled with his devotion, but to Mrs, f° Faleoner, YA But he was a man of bonor and Major Falconer was his friend. So John left Lexington and tried to for~*,_ get the woman he loved. He lost the suit which was to have brought him a fortune; and for @ time be lived in abject poverty. A friend helped him over the worst \ period of his hard luck and saved him from debtors’ prison. Out of grati- tude John proposed marriage to the daughter of this benefactor. The gir! accepted him—he had realized she loved him before he asked her hand— and the date for the marriage was | set. . e Then came word that Major Fal- coner was dead and that his wifo was free to marry the man of her choice. John fought with himself a terrific battle between love and duty. Then he explained the whole case to the girl he had promised to marry. She refused to release him from their engagement. roundings. His only close friends in the little And Mrs. Falconer —waiting happily in Lexington for John's return to her—read in the paper of his' marriage to another woman, ‘ Heratbroken, she turned her back forever on love and devoted the rest of her long life to the happiness of others. ; Peete ie ies ON FLAG DAY. ISABEL FISKE CONANT. ‘ ae keep now your flag three-fold; A tricolor forever, like to France, Your twin Repudlicf Where the sunbeams glance Let IAberty that oriflame unfold, Standard trigne; invincible strong. hold! ..'. | And you, who dared to choose the red alone, Unmindful of that shelter you were \ shown, \ Your flame ts false; your heart un- grateful, cold. Lead not astray, ye vistonary few, These children of the races, so mis- taught; You scatter strife, against wars— True brotherhood is not in rancor “ \ sought, Ye shall not take sts tohite, its tera i of blue, From our high banner, nor its stead- fast stare! ie reeslineceretes Canadian Envoy Has Special Chair A musty American diplomatic se- cret has been disclosed in Phila- delphia through announcement that Canada @oon will send tts own Min-" ister to Washington, It is that for’, the last ten years a specially mad . chair, carved with the Canadian coat of arms, has been waiting in Wash«. | ington for use of this envoy, Elihu Root, then ordered the chair, many te laily designed for the Pan-Amertoun Union Building at the capital, An- drew Carnegie’s memortal to cement more firmly the relation of the Amer- jcas. The story ts told by Albert Kelsey, of this city, one of the ar- chitects of the Pan-American Batid- tng, who said: “Once a month the Amb and Ministers of all the Americas republics meet and are presided over by our Secretary of State in the Pan- American Building and each repre. pretative has « chair of his own, with © arms.of his country ca: the back. 7 ee “Now, when these chairs . cided on, Secretary Root caked me tp have an additional one made with the Canadian arms on it, which was done, and which has been hidden for the past ten years, for Secretary Root cautioned me—to use his exact words —to bea Ti about the ma view’ wale prating